{"id":571687,"date":"2021-06-23T12:51:26","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T16:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=571687"},"modified":"2021-06-23T12:51:33","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T16:51:33","slug":"google-sanctions-use-of-anti-semitic-slogan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/google-sanctions-use-of-anti-semitic-slogan\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Sanctions Use of Anti-Semitic Slogan"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgoogle-sanctions-use-of-anti-semitic-slogan%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=571687&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"30.222222222222\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/\">Latest News<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">A human resources official defends use of eliminationist rhetoric in email to Jewish employee<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"464\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-452665810-736x464-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-452665810-736x464.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-452665810-1024x645.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-452665810-768x484.jpg 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-452665810-1536x967.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-452665810-2048x1290.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-452665810-1400x882.jpg 1400w\" data-sizes=\"auto\"  style=\"display:none\"><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tDemonstrators hold a placard reading &#8220;Google Israel &#8211; did you mean Palestine&#8221; during a rally for Al-Quds Day, an event intended to express solidarity with the Palestinian people, on July 25, 2014 in Berlin, Germany. Pro-Palestinian demonstrators marched through Berlin Friday, closely watched by police for any expressions of anti-Semitism and separated from smaller pro-Israel rallies. AFP PHOTO \/ ADAM BERRY        (Photo credit should read ADAM BERRY\/AFP via Getty Images)\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/eliana-johnson\/\" title=\"Posts by Eliana Johnson\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Eliana Johnson<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/alana-goodman\/\" title=\"Posts by Alana Goodman\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Alana Goodman<\/a> \u2022 June 23, 2021 12:45 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"98.135198135198\">\n<p>Google\u2019s human resources department earlier this week sanctioned an employee\u2019s use of the phrase &#8220;From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,&#8221; the eliminationist call-to-arms frequently employed by anti-Israel activists.<\/p>\n<p>The company&#8217;s determination came after a Jewish employee raised concerns about the anti-Semitic slogan by a top Google union official on an internal company profile. The company maintains an internal database containing contact information and personal profiles that appear in emails and other internal Google communications.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Googler who shared this phrase on his page did so as a show of solidarity with the Palestinian community, which Googlers are permitted to do in the workplace,&#8221; the human resources employee wrote in an email response to the Jewish employee\u2019s complaint obtained by the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>. &#8220;While the phrase used is understandably divisive, it was not intended to be anti-Semitic in the way the author used it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear whether Google\u2019s determination extends beyond the information included on employees\u2019 company profiles. The company did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>A political <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajc.org\/translatehate\/From-the-River-to-the-Sea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.ajc.org\/translatehate\/From-the-River-to-the-Sea&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1624547046348000&#038;usg=AFQjCNH-yB3ICRlKLRpTKuvga9cT7k1WAw\">slogan<\/a> used by Palestinian nationalists and terrorist groups like the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, &#8220;From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free&#8221; describes an aspirational Palestinian state that would extend from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea, eliminating the state of Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Google\u2019s determination comes as the tech giant faces outrage and scrutiny from Jewish employees and Jewish organizations for its silence in the wake of a <em>Free Beacon<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/google-diversity-head-said-jews-have-insatiable-appetite-for-war\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/google-diversity-chief-will-remain-at-company-in-wake-of-anti-semitic-remarks\/&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1624547046348000&#038;usg=AFQjCNHxBadW9HRxB-9milpsYLvbZgJJdg\">report<\/a> earlier this month on an anti-Semitic <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210602000424\/https:\/\/www.kamaubobb.com\/hidden-blogs\/2007\/12\/if-i-were-a-jew\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210602000424\/https:\/\/www.kamaubobb.com\/hidden-blogs\/2007\/12\/if-i-were-a-jew&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1624547046348000&#038;usg=AFQjCNHOUnO9ZUSGN5ONZaF2xKhAdw8cnA\">blog post<\/a> authored by a top member of the Google diversity team. Google <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/google-diversity-chief-will-remain-at-company-in-wake-of-anti-semitic-remarks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/google-diversity-chief-will-remain-at-company-in-wake-of-anti-semitic-remarks\/&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1624547046348000&#038;usg=AFQjCNHxBadW9HRxB-9milpsYLvbZgJJdg\">reassigned<\/a> the employee, Kamau Bobb, earlier this month to a role focused on science and technology education rather than diversity strategy but said little else about the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Bobb\u2019s 2007 blog post argued that Jews have an &#8220;insatiable appetite for war and killing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Simon Wiesenthal Center, a global anti-Semitism watchdog group, began an online ad campaign last week slamming Google for its &#8220;failure to address anti-Semitism in its workplace.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The ads note the search engine famously fired an engineering employee in 2017 who distributed a memo slamming the company\u2019s gender diversity initiatives, but kept Bobb on at the company.<\/p>\n<p>Google\u2019s response to Bobb\u2019s anti-Semitic remarks and to an increasing number of complaints from Jewish employees has been less vigorous than to other forms of prejudice. Parent company Alphabet on Tuesday shuttered a program aimed at fostering minority engineers after participants said it reinforced &#8220;systemic pay inequities,&#8221; Reuters <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/exclusive-google-drops-engineering-residency-100803157.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/exclusive-google-drops-engineering-residency-100803157.html&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1624547046348000&#038;usg=AFQjCNEnSIiqIypbevlgcTpe6P0SdlatzQ\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Rabbi Abraham Cooper, the associate dean for the Simon Wiesenthal Center, said the ads are a &#8220;shot across the bow&#8221; at Google and other corporations that have been tight-lipped about rising anti-Semitism within their companies and across the country. The group said the ads have received hundreds of thousands of views since the campaign began 10 days ago on Facebook, Google, and LinkedIn.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Transferring Mr. Bobb to a different role sends a clear message that Google embraces a double standard in which anti-Semitism is less offensive and less worthy of opprobrium than other forms of hate,&#8221; the organization said in a statement.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latest News A human resources official defends use of eliminationist rhetoric in email to Jewish employee  Demonstrators hold a placard reading &#8220;Google Israel &#8211; did you &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2281099,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-452665810-736x464-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Google Sanctions Use of Anti-Semitic Slogan","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-571687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-452665810-736x464-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Google Sanctions Use of Anti-Semitic Slogan","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2281099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}